Past Perfect Tense

of the Verb
ENGLISH 7 QUARTER 1 LESSON 8
EXPECTATIONS

This lesson will help you learn and

understand:
Past Perfect Tense of the Verb.
 PRETEST
Directions: Choose the correct form of the verb inside the parentheses.
Underline the answer.
1. The Japanese (bombed/had bombed) some Philippine military installations
in 1941.
2. The secretary (called/had called) the president before he talked to the
soldiers.
3. The Filipinos and Americans (failed/had failed) to protect the country from
the powerfully-armed invaders.
4. General MacArthur called President Quezon after he (arrived/had arrived) at
the place.
5. When they held the conference, the Japanese (attacked/had attacked) the
mainland.
 RECAP
In our previous lessons, we learned how to form and use regular and irregular
verbs in their past. As a review, do the following exercise.
Fill in the blanks with the past form of the verb in the parentheses.

1) Diego _______ (report) the topic well.

2) Sheila ____ (teach) her class last Monday.
3) I could not understand what she ____(do).
Answers:
1) The answer is reported. (regular verb)
2) The answer is taught. (irregular verb)
3) The answer is did. (irregular verb)
Express what the character does in each picture below. Use the past tense of
the verb in your sentence.
Hint: any name - last night - same person

Your answers are correct as long as you have used the

words brushed and slept.
LESSON
Can you combine the two sentences into one? You can
add some words to connect these two sentences.

1. Michael brushed his teeth last night.

2. Michael slept. /He slept
Either of the two is correct. These sentences are in
the Past Perfect tense.

1) Michael had brushed his teeth last night before

he slept. or
2) After Michael had brushed his teeth, he slept.
Past Perfect Tense

We use the Past Perfect Tense to indicate an action

completed in the past before another past action. This
tense is formed with the past form of "to have" (had)
plus the past participle of the verb (which can be either
in a regular or irregular form).
Look at this presentation. These pictures or events happened in
the past.
The boy brushed his teeth at 9:00 pm.
The boy slept at 9:30 pm.

We can combine these sentences and make them

more interesting, clear, and meaningful. We can also
indicate that there is an action completed before another
action in the past by using the past perfect tense.
Let’s name the boy, Michael.
Michael had brushed his teeth at 9:00 pm before he
slept at 9:30 pm.
The sentence above expresses a past action already
done before another action in the past. Also, we know
that the first action already happened at 9:00 pm, so, we
expressed it in the past perfect tense by using the had +
past participle of the verb.
Other examples:
a. I had written the email before he apologized.
It means that the email was written before he
apologized.
b. When we arrived, the meeting had started.
It means that the meeting had started before they
arrived at the meeting place.